However, the joy did not last long, and the annoyed Chidi drew his weapon and immediately launched an attack on the fortress. At the forefront were the people who escaped from the cave and their clansmen and friends, and then the whole army couldn't suppress the roar of the battle and rushed up.

It was a very ferocious but unorderly attack. The soldiers rushed up the slope with their weapons in hand and large shields, and when they reached the bottom of the wall, they were exhausted and rolled down the hill by the stones and logs thrown by the Xing people. Some people rolled halfway and got up again; Others dragged others to the ground. Eventually, when some people rushed to the gates of the fortress, they raised their chisels and dug them with their might, while others protected them with shields. This tortoiseshell formation made of shields is very strong, and ordinary rolling wood can't hurt them, even if they smash a hole, others will immediately replenish it. Xing Ren's old trick was repeated, pouring fire oil downward, throwing torches, and starting to barbecue living people again.

When the sun went down, the battle was over, leaving hundreds of corpses in the caves and on the hillside. The enemy finally calmed down, grabbed his weapon and began to burrow again. This time they reopened a few holes to avoid the Xingren's patio.

Qi, Song, Wei, and Zheng all received an urgent report from Xing Guo asking for help. Guan Zhong raised the urgent brief letter and said: "Rong Di is a jackal and a beast, and he cannot be let go; Zhu Xia is a brother and nephew, and he cannot be abandoned; Feasting, drinking, dancing and music are beautiful diseases and poisons, and they cannot be loved. If we only indulge in fine wine and beauty and let Rong Di destroy our relatives, it will be our turn next. "Poetry" cloud: 'Don't you want to return, afraid of this simple book.' 'Jianshu means to sympathize with each other's enemies! Please follow this brief book to save Xing Guo from danger! ”

Duke Huan of Qi immediately summoned his army and issued an order to the princes to rescue Xing. After the Qi division was assembled, under the leadership of Qi Huangong, it marched westward along the northern foot of Mount Tai, and then turned southward, and made peace with the Lu army in Pingyin, and the two armies crossed the Jishui and marched westward.

Zheng Wei's allied forces marched north along the Yellow River and waited for friendly forces at a place called Qianhou (southeast of Handan, on the west bank of the Yellow River). After the Qilu coalition crossed the Yellow River, the Four-Nation coalition army marched to Handan under the leadership of Qi Huangong.

By this time, one corner of the northern fortress had collapsed, and the situation of the southern fortress was not much better. The Xing army was struggling to hold on, the casualties were increasing every day, the defenders were beginning to run out of water, and the arrows were almost exhausted. The commander gave a very tragic order: in extreme cases, he could kill his wounded companion and then commit suicide, and he must not be captured alive by the enemy. This is because Chidi is particularly fond of cruel torture of prisoners of war, and it is worse than death to fall into the hands of these people.

The coalition army went straight to Handan, and the arrival of the new force greatly excited Xing, while Chidi was both frustrated and annoyed.

Luzi gathered the generals together and said, "Since the third dynasty of the Xia Shang dynasty, no one has been able to completely conquer our clan. Some people are not angry, and they go to the Shang King Wuding to be a slave, and the end is to be made into air-dried meat by the King of Zhou. The ancestors of the widows preferred to flee into the mountains and become neighbors with wolves and bears rather than submit to the dynasty. When the Western Zhou Dynasty was at its peak, we still had wins and losses with the Central Plains; Now that the Eastern Zhou Dynasty has fallen, we have no reason to lose to the Central Plains.

"The current Chidi is much stronger than the Western Zhou period. Let's see who our enemies are! Qi Xiaobai's close relative**; Lu Qifang's height is not as tall as a widow's dog; Zheng Jie is wearing women's clothes, she is a sissy; Wei Chi, a birdman, has been on the throne for eight years, and he only knows how to play with long-legged flat-haired beasts.

"Xingguo is small enough, Handan is just one of its cities, and in front of us are only two small camps in Handan. How can we win the trust of our subjects (the other Rongdi who surrendered to Chidi) with tens of thousands of troops, but we can't even capture these two dirt bags? What other face to go back and boast to the countrymen? How to raise your head in front of our women?

"Xing's army has less than four thousand men, and it is exhausted now. They shot fewer and fewer arrows, and smaller and smaller stones of wood and stone; Many parts of the fortress have collapsed, the gates are patched, and the capture of the enemy camp is tonight. I would like to conclude by emphasizing that the Xing people are as brave as we are, and the widow has ordered you not to kill the prisoners of war.

"It is impossible for us to get out of the country in one piece, and these prisoners of war are our hope of returning home. Even if you don't plan for yourselves, think for the sake of the brothers, and if anyone is exposed for killing, I will make him and his whole family slaves, and give the property to the whistleblower. So be it! If we lose again, we will cut it ourselves and be eunuchs for those little white fat men in the Central Plains! We're going to die anyway! ”

The Credis soldiers raised their weapons and shouted. As soon as the sun went down, Qundi began to light bonfires, slaughter cattle and sheep, and drink as if to celebrate victory, and their animalistic songs echoed throughout the plain. When they were at their most excited, they grabbed their weapons and rushed uphill.

There is no more force in the world to stop their attack, this is a group of beasts that do not know what life and death are. All they had in their minds at the moment was the crazy idea of storming the fortress, killing the enemy, achieving victory, and washing away the shame. The Chidi lowered their heads and raised their shields to form a turtle formation, and the people behind them climbed the shield array to assassinate the soldiers defending the city, and the Xing army put up the most stubborn resistance, using everything they could grasp as weapons, and some even held the enemy or took the initiative to jump down from the city wall to smash the turtle formation.

The nearly two-month siege had greatly weakened the Xing people's defenses, and on the eve of the Huaxia coalition driving Chidi into Taihang Mountain, both fortresses had been captured. Chidi split the city gates, climbed over the high walls, and swarmed in, and the Xing people would rather die than surrender, fighting until they were killed or captured.

The battle continued all night, and by dawn the fortress was completely occupied. The high-ranking nobles of Chidi were all wounded, their clothes soaked in their own blood and those of their enemies, and Luzi's helmet had been split open and one place was smashed into a dent. He was still bleeding from his head and nostrils, and he was vomiting; Although he was still conscious, he had lost his ability to command.

A Di lord and a dozen sons and grandsons were killed in battle, and the casualties of both warring sides reached almost one to one, which had never happened in Chidi's previous wars against other countries.